3 State Players Selected

College Beat

April 20, 2000

Pitchers Len DiNardo of Stetson, Kiki Bengochea of Miami and outfielder Chris Smith of Florida State and have been invited to try out for the U.S. national team. DiNardo, along with other invited pitchers Mark Prior of Southern Cal and Josh Karp of UCLA, played on last year's team. They head a group of 20 players selected Wednesday for the trials at Tucson, Ariz., June 16-21. The team will be selected from a pool of 35-40 players. The others will be invited by the end of May.

B-CC sweeps Savannah

Matt Knox went three-for-three and Carlos Baez homered to lead Bethune-Cookman (27-25) to a 4-1 victory and a doubleheader sweep of Savannah State (46-3) at Ormond Beach. B-CC won the first game 8-2 and left-handed pitcher Chanx Martin (3-3) struck out 12 in seven innings. Senior second baseman Knox and senior right fielder Jeante Nunez were named to the All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference first team.

UF whips JacksonvillePeter Nystrom drove in three runs with a pair of singles as Florida (29-16-1) bunched nine runs into the first six innings en route to a 9-1 victory at Jacksonville (26-17). Center fielder Tim Olson set a Florida record when his first-inning single stretched his hitting streak to 27 consecutive games.